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TEACHING/ACADEMICS
Teaching Methods:

Case Study: 25  %
Lectures: 50  %
Simulations: 15  %
Team Projects: 10  %

Estimated number of hours per week students spend working in class and outside the classroom:
17

Teachers in the part-time program:
62

Tenured teachers in the part-time program:
24

Faculty also teaching in full-time program:
95  %

Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience:
7  %

Average core class size:
59

Average elective class size:
38

Electives available:
133

Recently added electives:
Economy in Crisis High Tech to Leverage Corp Recovery
Perspectives on Leadership
Managerial Decision Making
Financial Crisis Bubbles and Panics

Last curriculum revision:
2007

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Recent curriculum changes:
Communications Core Change

Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

Accounting

Economics

Entrepreneurship

Finance

International Business

Marketing

Operations Management

Organizational Behavior

Statistics and Operations Research

Strategy

  Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program?
No

Leading areas of study:

Consulting

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Marketing

Strategy

Graduation requirements:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/letter grade average

Other:

Capstone Course Completion

Credits required to graduate:
64

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology improvements in the last three academic years:
-Upgraded teaching technology in local & NY Classrooms &conference rooms with some or all of the following: dual projectors, touch panel control, distance learning equipment, seat microphones, power & data @ each seat. -Upgraded Bloomberg terminals. -3 new Dist. Learning Studios w/ central production room. -Installed additional NY computer classroom. -Online Alumni Community developed & released. -New projectors installed in 3 classrooms. -Presentation technology installed in bldg.’s new conference center incl. projectors, flat panel displays & touch panel control systems.

Amount spent:
$  5,997,847

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Living MBA alumni:
9,566

Active MBA alumni clubs:
33

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:
11

  Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?
Yes

  Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?
Yes

University alumni networking site:
http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/membersonly/CMU/

  Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?
Yes

Business school alumni networking site:
http://www.tepper.cmu.edu/compass

  Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?
Yes

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CAREER SERVICES
  Do part-time MBAs have access to career development office?
Yes

  If yes, at what point in the degree process are part-time MBA students able to use the service?
At any time

  Are part-time MBAs permitted to interview for full-time jobs?
Yes

  Are part-time students included in resume drops?
Yes

Organizations that send the most participants to the part-time MBA program:



Medrad
  6


Bank of New York Mellon
  6

Westinghouse
  4

Equitable
  3

PPG/Nova Chemicals
  2

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Tepper provided a great education and I believe it is the primary reason I was able to advance my career. Also, there was very little differentiation between part time and full time, aside from when we took classes. As a part time student I had access to the same professors, same courses and same programs as the full time students.

Some of the classes were short on time with regard the amount of material the instructors wanted to present.

The size of the school was perfect for me. It made networking very easy and the faculty knew me by name. All of the professors were top-notch and experts in their respective fields.

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I was able to receive all of the benefits one would expect from a top-tier MBA program without having to quit my job.

As a general rule, there was a wide variety of evening electives available in the fall and spring semesters. In the summer, however, only one group of students in the entire program takes electives: those part-time students in the second-year of the program. So there is a limited offering of electives for that one semester.

Although many of my professors were experts in their respective field and several had won industry recognition for their achievements, all of them were very approachable. The program had a real "family" feel to it due to the small size of the school.

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In some classes like options pricing or operations management, I was being taught by some of the brightest and most sought after minds in their fields. In other classes, I could have taught the material better. One problem is that to be on the leading edge of their field, professors have to do a lot of research. They can't do that research if they are teaching a 101 class, which by the way, they all had to do at some point. Most were able to still teach the basics with passion while some were clearly lacking that passion.

One of the bad things about the part time program was that most of the activities were geared towards full time students. So there would be a lot of lunch or 4pm meetings and very few evening or Saturday events. Spreading these events around so that the part time students had a greater chance to participate would have made it better.

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They really need to improve on the parking situation. This sounds like a small thing, but it isn't when you're rushing from your job to class and need to be able to park within a mile of your building.

I would definitely choose the Tepper Flex-Time program again. It was very important to me to attend a part time program that included the exact same classes, professors and curricula as the Full Time program, which was delivered as promised. The quality and intensity of education was stunning. Compared with professors at other top business schools, I believe that Tepper professors drill further down into the quantitative and theoretical issues underlying the topics of classroom discussion. By doing so they create a deeper, more granular understanding of the subject matter and provide a stronger foundation for students to pursue their own analysis of matters discussed both inside and outside of the classroom.

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They need to expand their course selection for the part time students and have more evening speakers. They need to listen more to the part time students' concerns. (We paid more than the full time students with fewer benefits.)

I would recommend the program with reservations. The Tepper MBA Flex Time is not very accommodating to flex-time students who work full-time.

At Tepper I enjoyed the small class sizes and personal touch with the faculty and staff. I thought I gained a lot of insight from classes I took which were both case-based and focused on quantitative methods.